April 30, 2025 • 49 mins
In this episode of the What Sold podcast, hosts explore how everyday kitchen items can hold significant value. They discuss how people often discard potentially valuable items and how to identify treasures among them. The conversation covers key brands like Fire King, CorningWare, Pyrex, Tupperware, and Le Creuset, as well as valuable flatware, cast iron skillets, and silverware. They also touch on the significance of preserving original packaging for electronics, nostalgic diner mugs, and antique glassware. Additionally, the hosts share personal anecdotes and practical tips for valuing and selling these items, making it a must-listen for aspiring resellers and treasure hunters.
00:00 Introduction to Thrifting Treasures
00:31 Meet the Hosts
01:26 Discussing Autism Representation
02:15 Family TV Show Favorites
03:30 Unique Selling Tips
04:30 Valuable Items in Your Home
04:40 The Value of Old Phones
10:38 Kitchen Treasures: Fire King, CorningWare, and Pyrex
17:19 Identifying Valuable Silverware
23:15 Hidden Value in Teacups and Saucers
26:10 Identifying Valuable Teacups and Saucers
26:52 Thrift Store Finds and Donation Tips
27:50 Family Collections and Water Bottle Woes
30:05 Exploring Cast Iron Skillets
32:21 Copper Bottom Cookware and Other Kitchen Treasures
33:40 Sentimental Value of Kitchen Items
38:10 Collectible Glassware and Mugs
41:58 Antique Tin Types and Vintage Purses
44:12 Unexpected Finds in Nature
47:52 Concluding Thoughts and Future Episodes
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Every single day people takeunwanted or unused items to thrift
in antique stores across the country.
But as the saying goes, one man'strash is another man's treasure.
And we are here to prove it.
Identify valuable thingsbefore you throw them away.
Join us as we show Intel of TreasuresFound and sold by a full-time
reseller with the hopes of helpingyou find some treasures of your own.
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Welcome to the What Sold podcast.
Welcome back to the What SoldPodcast. We are refreshed. We are ready to go We have vacationed.
Taken in the mountain air and we areready to go to bring you guys some
selling tricks, some magic if you will.
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Matt?
Yeah, how are you?
I'm happy to be here.
I'm doing well.
How are you today?
I'm not sure.
I believe you.
I feel like you might have just saidthat and it's not actually true.
I feel like for those of you who dunno,Matt, he has a very interesting business.
He how.
You're like, was there more behindthat or is that just the way it is?
(01:16):
So I like that you're describing mekind of like a sociopath who doesn't
really understand certain emotionsbecause they don't experience them.
Empathy.
Empathy.
Lacking empathy.
Yeah.
Well, hey, now that RFK is fixingautism, maybe we'll find out that's
what's been going on all these years.
Perhaps you've been a very highfunctioning autistic, although
I don't too much kindness in.
(01:39):
Yeah.
Not to say that people with autismdon't have kindness and maybe they
just don't display it the same waythat, that we're accustomed to.
Exactly.
It's interesting, not that we're a showabout current events, but there was a
convers, RF K's been doing all this stuffand there is a a contestant on Survivor
who's the first autistic person onwho's on the spectrum and she's awesome.
(01:59):
And we watch it as a family andshe's very up in arms because.
She's like saying, Heylook, I'm not a freak.
I'm just a person.
That brain works a little bit differently.
It's like somebody that has dyslexia andpeople think it's like, no, they're not.
They just, their brain works differently.
That's it.
It's not a big deal.
It does.
Yeah, and I'll confess, Ihaven't ever watched that show.
Maybe something in the very earlystages of that show, but I don't
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know, have there been very many.
I don't know, differenttypes of people represented.
Have there been many peoplewith disabilities or things
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Lots and lots of different.
They pride themselves on introducingdifferent types of characters.
Great.
They had one of the very first transcontestants and they've had just
every name, the type of person,and they've had it on the show.
Mm-hmm.
And it's one of our family favorites.
(02:43):
Lots of people don'twatch it, but we love it.
It's very formulaic and we knowit's gonna happen, but it's
really fun with our daughter.
I wonder who's gonnaget voted off this week?
We don't watch any otherTV together as a family.
We don't actually watch that much tv,but that is our show and we love it.
You're gonna get a phone call from aconcerned parent and they'll say,
Hey your daughter got upset and told.
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My daughter that she's voting her out.
Can you explain what that means?
Off the island?
Off the island, she's voting her off.
Off the island.
You're outta here.
And I'll tell her very clearly.
Clearly your daughter has someproblems socially and can't get
along with her peers, right.
If she had behaved correctly, there'sno reason she would've voted her off.
Listen, I will tell that parent, yourdaughter better start searching for an
idol right now because her time is short.
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I'm just saying that'sprobably your time is short.
Alright.
Enough for this ridiculousness Matt.
Sure.
We are doing something alittle bit unique today.
Mm-hmm.
Unique in New York, Matt.
And I'd like to do our warmupsto Anchorman unique New York.
And we are going to be talking about,so Matt said on our I our episode.
(03:46):
But I you were talking about peoplefinding stuff in tough times, so I
think it was our last episode andabout don't think you have to go
all over the world to find stuff.
Yeah.
A lot of it's to write in your own house.
Yeah.
So we're gonna start, do thislittle series of things that
people can look for in theirhouse, perhaps their in-laws house.
Yeah.
Their grand, people theyknow that have this stuff.
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People always have a junk drawer.
My wife calls it a utility drawer,but I, we, my daughter and I always
refer to it as the junk drawer.
It only has utility if you're actuallyusing things in there from time to time.
If it just, she often refers toit as the miscellaneous drawer
to throw this off the sink.
Exactly.
But we're like, it's the junk drawer.
But everybody has one of thosedrawers where you have all this stuff,
someday I might wanna use this x.
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And that before we get started,we're gonna talk about things
that are in the kitchen.
One can find that have value.
But before we get started, I wasperusing my newsfeed this morning
and I came across this article.
I actually sent it to Mattabout the value of old phones.
And we're not talking aboutlike phones from last year.
We're talking about phonesfrom like the eighties.
(04:50):
So like the very first that biggiant phone that had the white
thing that looked like you wereon a, an astronaut somewhere.
Those are worth thousands of dollars nowthey're, they don't even have to work.
Mm-hmm.
But one of the things the articlesaid that I felt like, oh, that.
I always do this, and I think you alwaysdo this when you buy some piece of
electronic, they say that if it's in theoriginal box, it's way more valuable.
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I don't know why.
Mm-hmm.
But people love it in the original boxand I always save the original boxes.
So I was think to myself, oh my gosh,I think I have a bunch of old phones.
And it turns out, in fact, I do havesome old phones, so I'm gonna do a
little bit of deep diving and findout if there's any value to them.
Yeah.
Because I just kept them for, I dunno why.
I have them.
Right.
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Some things are just, it's, itjust feels strange to discard them.
Even if you don't think you're gonnause, if they're outdated, you're not
gonna, I've got countless examplesof cassette tapes and CDs and things
that people really haven't beenusing those mu, like listening to
music on those forms as much anymore.
Right.
But they just, they're like, ah,but you know, why throw it away?
You never know when, and I get, bythe way, kudos for finding evidence
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to support things that I've said.
You can continue doing that becausethat makes me sound like an expert.
Expert.
If other people agree you'rean expert though, then all of a
sudden I become like you want.
You want that soundbite from me?
Yeah, and I'll put that inthe show notes people, so you
can read the article as well.
'cause it was, you neverknow, you might in the drawer.
I have this little electronics drawerthat I keep and it's just I think for
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me, I'm always worried about maybea KGB spy coming across my phone
and taking all the contacts off,doing something scurrilous with it.
That's why I keep it, because I'ma classic, paranoid person, so I
don't want anybody to get my data.
You might have some of thisstuff laying around your house
that you don't even know.
And that's the, exactly the conversationwe're gonna have is what's in your
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kitchen that might have value that youdon't even know has value, and that
what can you sell on eBay with thatand, how much can we make from it?
So that's what we'regonna talk about today.
That's great.
Yeah.
Listener out there it'sexactly as Brandon said it.
The easiest way to start and the cheapestway to start is like you don't have
to walk beyond rooms in your housethat you're in every day of your life.
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You may be surprised at the value of somethings that you never would've thought
people would care about anymore, use much.
They're there.
And so we'll start with the kitchen today.
There this kind of a great,I'm just interject story here.
It seems like every week right now, I'mgetting more and more people contacting
me, asking if I'll sell things for them.
(07:25):
I feel like the last time wedid an episode, I had just
made a connection or two.
I probably made two or three more sincethe last time we recorded, and I'm almost
getting to the point where I need ano, Ineed to hire more people if I or I'm gonna
have to start saying, Hey, listen, I'mbooked until two, three weeks from now.
And honestly, if I'm booked outthat far, I really should get help.
So that may be something I do.
But I was in a person'shouse this morning.
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8:00 AM had a, this is one of thoseclassic situations where a parent
passed away, was in an assisted livingcommunity, but was living in a building
that's, it's not like a, there's several.
Small buildings, like maybe it's aduplex, but they live in one of them
and the daughter's in there right now.
She needs to get all this stuff outby the end of the month that's four
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or five days away wants to get thingsset up so that, and I don't know
if I don't think that they own it.
I think it goes back to the livingcenter so that they can clean it and then
offer it to someone else, but mm-hmm.
All that to say, she hadalready gone through and tagged
things that she wanted to keep.
And didn't know me, met me this morningand I kinda explained what I did.
She, wait, let me interrupt you.
(08:28):
Sorry.
But I think this is for clarification.
So how did they find youfrom a mutual friend?
That I, I know, so the parent ofa friend of mine, you know, Rob.
So his mother, that guy?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Was above his mom.
He's not so much.
I know.
Yeah.
I could take or, leave him, frankly.
But she she knew what I did.
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And so this friend of herswas the one that passed away.
And so she, she wasn't real connected tothe daughter until now, but she wanted
to help, she was gonna help move stuff.
And then she said, oh, sherecognized the situation.
The lady was in, thoughtthat she could use my help.
And that was it.
So she just shared the information.
We set up a thing.
And so I go in today and very nice lady,and there's a lot of stuff in there that
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I'm likely going to gather for her in thenext couple of days and start selling.
Okay.
But I walk in the kitchen and I noticethat all along the top of the cabinets are
almost like little tchotchkes and things,but they're all kitchen related things.
So like little candy dishes or yeah,a cookie jar or things like that.
Oh, but they're older, right?
These are decades old.
And in really good condition.
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And so I was talking and she said, Hey,she pointed to a piece of Corning wear,
which is like a little casserole dish,a white with the blue flowery print,
the corn oh yeah, my mom had those.
Yeah, exactly.
That's a very common one.
Most people have probablyseen that or, and or used it.
And she's like, does this stuff, I hearthat some of this stuff can be valuable.
I'm like, yeah, it depends on thepattern, condition, all of that.
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But I was like, just as an example, andI reach up with my phone and I take a
photo of this candy dish with a lid.
I could tell by looking at it,it was a Fire King brand, which
we'll talk about in a moment.
I look it up and they're selling forbetween 150 and $200 and this thing
doesn't stand more than six inchestall, maybe four or five inches wide.
It's like a semi translucent,opaque, almost like milk glass,
(10:17):
but not exactly milk glass.
Mm-hmm.
With a little color pattern on it,but it's like an exquisite condition.
Looks like it's never been used.
She was just shocked.
She was like, I wouldn't havethought, maybe 20 bucks, 30 bucks.
She was like, I mighthave even donated that.
Which is a, a very real relevant storyfrom today that is a part of this
conversation, which is you or someone youknow likely has things in the kitchen.
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So since I mentioned Fire King andCorningWare, let's just start there.
Brands such as Fire King, CorningWare,and Pyrex, those are probably
the three biggest ones that Isee regularly and are selling.
Certain patterns, meaning, the patternthat's on the outside of it, it's
usually floral in some way or something.
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It's colorful.
Or it may just be some sort ofuniform color or a geometric design
depending on the age condition.
So if it's scratched up it standsto reason it's probably not gonna be
selling for as much is one that's not.
But certain patterns were rarer becausethey were not produced as long, or
there weren't as many of them produced.
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And so if you happen to have one ofthese that's highly sought after, you
could make over a thousand dollarson a single bowl or a single dish.
And I'm not kidding you, there's a.
That.
And by the way, all of these madethings like bowls, candy dishes
casserole dishes of varying sizes,things that you would put in the oven
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or that you would put in the fridge.
There's a whole set of these that aresmall that uhhuh you would, put things in
the fridge and they were made of glass.
But the fire king has a particularproduct that is a sort of a mint green
color, and they call it jadeite becausejade jadeite is that green color.
Sure.
So they call it that.
But those tend to bring a premium as well.
People just like the color.
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Because they, they're just basedon a color, not on a pattern.
Even if they've been used and stuff,they still relatively look pretty well.
Whereas some of these casserole dishes, ifthey've been heavily used, you look down
on the bottom of it and you can see whereover time, spoons have scraped and now
it's got gray streaks and things in it.
But again, depending on thepattern, the age, even ones that are
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heavily used can be sought after.
So I think the best wayto start with that stuff.
The easiest.
And this, you can determinevalue in less than five minutes
on anything in your kitchen.
You just take out your phone, you takea photograph of it as clean and crisp
and of the main part of it as possible.
And then you go to your Google or Chromeapps, whatever, this is your search
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engine on your phone, and you click thelittle buy the search bar at the top.
You click the little iconthat looks like a camera.
And it's going to search the internet forimages that most closely match that photo.
It's essentially trying to gatherthe most similar item and it's gonna
show you pictures, and you're likelygonna find ones that are on places
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like eBay, Etsy, and other competitorssites, either in the US or worldwide.
Then you're also gonna see listingsthat have been on recent auction houses,
maybe online auctions or listings.
And a lot of those aren't gonnatell you the price because they
require a subscription to yourwebsite to give you the price.
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But if you go to eBay and some ofthose, you're gonna see what they are.
Now that you know what it's called, right?
I know that this is, up Pyrex, youknow this is the model number, or
this is the name of the pattern.
Then you can go to eBay andjust search that pattern.
Pyrex cornflower Blue.
CorningWare, corn, flourblue or whatever it is.
Spice of Life is one you've probably seen.
It's like cornucopia almostlooks like a Thanksgiving scene.
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You've probably seen those.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah.
Spice of Life, some ofthose can be valuable.
Others not as much.
But now you find it, you goto, you look up sold items.
On eBay, and then you look and see whathas sold over the last three months, and
that will give you an idea of the average.
But you can also click on one of those,and there's usually a button from
eBay that says, sell similar item.
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Perfect.
You just click that one button.
It creates the whole listing for you.
The only thing you have to do is addyour pictures, adjust the title if
you want, and then go in and adjustwhatever else you want to adjust, like
the price or how you want it shipped.
That kind of thing, but 90% ofthe work's already done for you.
You can research a thing, you knownothing about, identify it, search
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sold listings, work a copy off of asold listing and have something done.
Sometimes I buy stuff like this, guys,I'll go to a thrift store, I'll buy it.
I'll come out to the parking lot and inmy car I do this process and I will list
it and it's listed on my eBay site beforeI even drive out of the parking lot.
Oh, that's awesome.
You can do this in your kitchen.
Go find three or four things.
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Grab yourself a cup of coffee,go sit down in the corner, right?
And in 10 or 15 minutes youcould have listed four or five
potentially valuable things.
I went a little bit deeper there, butdifferent types of mixing bowls mugs,
like I said, casserole dishes, these typesof things by those main three brands.
And there are others, but those aretypically the most common ones I see.
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And I know that some ofthem are selling well.
Now, do you, before I move on, are,do you have any experience with
these things I'm talking about?
Have you seen these in either insomeone's kitchen, your parents' kitchen?
Oh yeah.
Uhhuh.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
My grandmother had, I remember at mygrandparents' house they, she had a,
like on shelves, she would have allthe mixing bowls and everything that
I, I'm exactly these, my mom had.
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Tyrex.
It's funny, my wife, her mother hadan entire set of, and I was just
thinking to myself, man, I wonderif what the value of that would be?
The original Tupperware in boxes of the.
Tupperware From a Tupperware party?
Yeah, from like the early seventiesthat had never been opened.
Yeah.
That's actually a great, I'mglad you mentioned that name.
I should have mentioned that too.
So as an adjacent brand that didn'treally create glass or hard products,
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but it was more plastic products.
Tupperware vintage Tupperware.
Again, certain colors wererarer to find that puke green
color or the mustard orange.
Oh yeah, we have one or, yeah, some ofthose and even ones that have, again, some
sort of a decoration around it as longas they're in good condition, sometimes
those things, depending on where they werestored, can be broken, brittle, crumbly.
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But others, I've seen othersthat are really good conditions.
In case in point, you can find stufflike that at thrift stores all day long.
You might find one, sometimesit's a heartbreaker, like
you'll find the Little bowl.
It should have come with alid, but the lids not there.
So you're like, okay, well you know it,it'll still sell, but not as much as it
would have if it was entirely complete.
Those things were prone to getlittle cracks or little things
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on around the edges of the lids.
As people would pry themup, they would crack.
If you find one that's undamaged, that'sgreat, but again, sometimes depending on.
The style and the age.
Even somes that are fairly damaged couldbe still sought after 'cause people
are trying to complete sets or they'retrying to get a various colors so that
it looks really colorful and cool vintageitems in their cupboard or whatever.
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So Tupperware's another one.
Okay, so if we move over from that,that cabinet that has the hard stuff.
Yeah.
And we went down to the drawerthat has the Tupperware.
Okay.
Now we're gonna move upto the silverware drawer.
And I say silverware, I really meanflatware, but a lot of people have,
either they know it or maybe they don't.
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Older or maybe even newer silverwarethat is made of sterling silver.
Or 800 silver or 900silver or nine 50 silver.
So 9 25 just means 925out of a thousand parts.
Pure silver nine 50 is 950out of a thousand parts.
That's why Sterlingsilver is marked 9 2 5.
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But silver is a traded precious metal.
It has a price that fluctuatesby the minute every day.
And so you can generally see thevalue of it based on the weight.
So if you have, a lot of people don'tnecessarily anymore use forks and
spoons and knives for their regularmeals that are made outta solid or
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sterling silver, but you might have,say, a carving knife or a sharpening
a sharpener for a carving knife.
You might have a large ladle or a spoonor a large fork and it's, it could be
either it's older, let's say you got itfrom a family member, you inherited it.
You just thought it looked cool.
It could be sterling silver,it could have a silver handle.
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Then the blade portion is maybe stainlesssteel, but it's usually marked that way.
Older ones, the majority of theolder pieces of silverware I find
that have silver handles, they,it's sometimes hard to find.
They're very tiny.
They usually say sterling, theword stir, like the full word.
Or they'll say stir, STER, period.
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For whatever reason on jewelry, a lot oftimes when they're newer, they're more
likely to say 9, 2 5, when they're older.
I'm talking the teens.
Ladder 18 hundreds and 18hundreds, it's gonna say Sterling.
Or if it's really old, itwon't even say an A thing.
It'll just have some essay stamps.
And if you see one thathas a an anchor on it.
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A cer, it's a, I don'twanna confuse people.
There is a particular anchor thatmeans that's a particular maker.
But usually if gold has a stampof an anchor, then that means that
it was, it is sterling silver.
Okay?
And it was likely made in Europe,probably England someplace.
Again, more of a deep dive.
But take a look at your flatware.
You might have some, and certainpatterns, like if the handle of those
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older ones seem to be way more ornate.
The handles, were veryfloral, they were etched.
They had a really cool design.
People collect certain sets by certainmakers and maybe they, they want to
have, they have a place setting foreight, but they've only got seven forks.
They're looking for that eight fork.
Mm-hmm.
Or maybe they have the whole setupsthat they don't have the big pieces
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like the ladle or the serving spoon.
So those can definitely be worth somethingand that's an easy place to look.
Also in that drawer you may have knives.
So we talked about silver as areason why something can be valuable.
There are certain types of knivesthat are higher end knives.
Maybe you bought it, knew what itwas, or maybe you inherited it.
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Maybe you just, you're the kind of personthat likes to be a frugal, and so you
get things like that from thrift stores.
When you see something thatlooks quality, you get it.
There's a certain brand, thereare certain brands of knives
that can bring high values.
I tend to find.
In with other knivesand it's just a dollar.
Doesn't matter what itis, knives are a dollar.
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I pull that out and that's like a 50or $60 knife, maybe more than that
if it's in really good condition.
And Cutco knives.
Yeah.
Cutco has a weird reputation becausethe way they sell the knives, right?
They basically hire peopleto go around, but ultimately.
They're really good knives.
They're, the Cutco knivesthat we have are amazing.
I'm always like, wow, thisis a really good knife.
And I think that they have a lifetime.
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I think you can send them in and they willsharpen them for you and send them back.
Mm-hmm.
But the way you know, Cutco knives,aside from looking closely and
seeing that it says Cutco, isthat the handles are very unique.
They're, if you think of like an hourglasspattern, if you were to look at it
from the side, that's what it's like.
So it's more rounded in the centerand towards the, and the bottom.
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It's narrow in betweenthere and it gets wide.
Again.
I wish I had one with, I have oneshere, but I to show us a visual aid.
But those can be valuable.
And then others that are brands that catermore to more professional, like chefs
and people in the food industry, thosethings will find their ways sometimes into
thrift stores and places, or a yard sale.
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There's a box of stuff and there wasa few things in there you wanted.
So you bought the whole box.
There's like everything for 20 bucksand you ended up with a couple knives
and you're like, oh, I might use them.
You throw 'em in, but you may notrealize that they have more value
than just cutting your limes orwhatever you're gonna use it for.
My father-in-law worked wasan engineer for the Oneida.
(22:04):
Silver corporation and basicallyOneida, there's a whole story behind it.
It's a crazy story.
Super weird backstory.
Super weird backstory.
But they made fine silverware.
Flatware.
They, it was, they were known fortheir, and what happened is back in
the nineties, as lots of companieswere doing, they started shipping the
manufacturing of the actual flatwareChina or wherever, demarcation.
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My mother-in-law had an entireset of Oneida silverware.
Wow.
That my wife's brother is like,Hey, do you guys want this stuff?
And so we ended up withall this Oneida silver.
Nice.
And, which I'm sure if we went and it's acomplete set, everything, the ladle, all
that stuff, I'm sure if we put that alltogether, it would have some real value.
The only reason I bring that up isthat you don't know if your neighbor
(22:51):
down the street has the stuff.
They're like, ah, I don't reallylike the style or whatever.
Right.
But it might have some real valueif like it's Oneida flatware.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And as you mentioned, and that may belike a double whammy, it might be made
of silver, and it's also a full set.
That's great.
A lot of that older stuff,especially when there's a, an
intriguing history behind it.
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Collectors are gonna wantthat stuff, so that's good.
So if we go back up to the cabinetarea again, we're gonna go towards
the top and towards the back whereyou have the old teacups and saucers
that you got from your grandmotheror whoever it was that you never use.
I know everyone has listen, I'vebeen to enough people's house.
My favorite thing to do whenI go in people's kitchens.
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To is to a guess where the trashcan is if it's not obvious,
and B, where is the silverware?
Because a lot of timesthere's drawers, right?
And so I have to be, it's like, okay, isthis, it's like an intuitive thing, is it?
So are they the kind of people thathave the trash can and a pullout thing?
Is it, are they under the sink peopleor are they in the side covered people.
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In a, oh, and then with the silverware,man, it's a, it's anybody's guess
'cause sometimes, and it's in theleast intuitive spot you would
think, and you're just like.
But anyways, so No, I agree.
And or you can be married tosomebody like I am who constantly
moves things around on you.
Ah, just to keep you on your toes.
I'm like, wait, what happened tothe, yeah, that happens pretty
much monthly in our house.
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Things get, it's the kind of guy whojust pulls the rug out from underneath
of you when you, as soon as you walk in.
Totally.
So if we go, if we pull out you're gonnafind things like teacups and saucers.
You're gonna find these little sets oftea sets that like little kids can use.
Maybe you have one that's two, 150years old and this was for kids
back in civil War era, or whatever.
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That stuff can have value,especially its full sets.
But turning our attention to saucersand teacups, there are some brands,
some older ones, typically European.
England or German thingssometimes Russian.
Royal Prussia is a brand I found forthose who didn't hear the episode,
where I spoke about this before.
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The short story is I boughta large lot of things.
It took me months to get through all theboxes to open them and actually list them.
I was gathering things.
'cause every time you buy a largelot, there's always a percentage
that needs to be trashed.
There's a percentage that needs tobe donated 'cause it's not really
worth your time because there'snot really enough value there.
I found this like really ugly to me.
Ugly looking saucer and teacup butterfliesand pinks and swirls and things.
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And I think, sure, that's not me.
So that's gonna, that's gonnago in the giveaway that's gonna
go to the a local thrift store.
But being a learning from previousresearch and mistakes, I'm like, I'm
gonna research it just to make sure.
The final conclusion to that storyis that two weeks later, I sold
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that saucer and tea cup, which it'sjust a saucer, like a small little
saucer, a small little teacup, $1,400.
Oh my, I remember that story.
It's amazing.
Yes.
It was by a brand called Ainsley.
And not everything byAinsley is that valuable.
However, a lot of things are, so theones I find to be selling for the most,
aside from certain brands, which youcan do that research on eBay, it's
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pretty easily just look up saucer,like vintage or antique saucer, teacup.
And then just look at sold items.
Look at the highest ones.
Mm-hmm.
You'll see patterns, but ones that arereally brightly colored in full color.
Let's say it's an, it's a really brightcobalt blue color with some other
colors, but it's very full of color.
It's not primarily white.
It's actually primarily a color withwhite things as accents or ones that
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have a lot of guilt and or gold.
Painted brush work on us.
So a lot of times some brands wouldcreate a thing and then someone would
come in after the fact, after it wascreated and hand paint stuff on there,
and some that have a lot of gold.
I don't know if people are buyingit to actually remove the gold or
if they just like the look of it.
Those tend to sell pretty well.
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Also, you can go to thrift stores and youcan find these, 'cause thrift stores don't
look up to see like, oh, it's an Ainsley.
Maybe that's, no.
It's like, mm-hmm.
Sausage and teacups are 50cents, or they're a dollar.
Just because they're asaucer and a tea cup.
And if you happen to come in on aday when something really valuable
was put out, you could score big.
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That kind of thing can happen.
So before you go out there though,go and you'll feel good anyways just
to pull that junk out right out ofthere that you've never look at in
the dark recesses of the kitchen.
Pull that stuff out and if youfind something of value, great.
If you see something, you'relike, I really should use this.
This ain't going back.
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Like I, I need to use that space.
Right.
I'm gonna donate that to a local charity.
Great win for you.
You freed up space win for them.
They got something that they can selland make money to support their cause.
So that's another.
A really good place to look now, areyou, after this, are you gonna go pull
on your old teacup collection, Brandon?
Oh, yeah.
It's funny, we have a cup collection.
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We collect diner mugs.
Mugs.
And I love them.
But we have I've often thought of atsome point when I'm long gone, is Maple
gonna come through, my daughter, andlook at all these mugs from different
coffee shops around the country.
It's quite impressive, Matt.
But we do have, we.
As in any family, everybody has theirneeds or their wants or their, like, we
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have collected more water bottles thanany family on the planet, and it's because
every time a child takes a water bottlesomeplace, they never, it's almost like
they're like, I can't come home with this.
It gets left somewhere, youhave to have more than one.
It's true.
If a water bottle gets leftat a friend's house, do you,
and no one's there to hear it.
Does it make a sound type thing?
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Yeah.
It's pretty crazy how much stuff youcan collect, but you're like, oh,
I need to give this back, or, oh,this'll come in handy at some point.
But you're right, thatcatharsis of removing stuff.
Now I do have a family memberwho will remain nameless, Sue.
They are queen.
They don't keep anything ever ifyou know that if you give it to
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'em, it will be gone in like a week.
Yeah.
They just don't want anythingin their house they're not using
right then and there, which Ifind a little bit over the line.
There are some things that areworth hanging onto, but interesting
factoid for trivia, there are more.
Children's water bottlesfloating out in the ocean.
Then there are straws.
I mean that it could, because every timethey go out I'm telling you, if I went
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10 places in a day and I gave my childa water bottle every time we went, guess
how many water bottles would be home?
Zero.
At the end of the day.
Zero.
And and that's the kind of mathproblems I present to my kids as well.
I need them to understand thisis a learning opportunity.
I do wonder about the, what age it is.
This is completely nothing to do with whatwe're talking about, but I look at kids
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sometimes and I'm like, what age do youstart being more self-aware that now I
need to pick my coat up and bring it home.
All right, that's my water bottle.
I'm going to pack it away.
At some point we figure it out, right?
Or maybe some people don't.
I don't know.
I'm in my forties.
It for me, it hasn't happened yet.
I'm still waiting for the.
But we'll get, you're stillleaving water bottles everywhere.
That's right.
Alright.
What else do we have in thekitchen that we wanna sell?
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It's like signs around here.
There are bottle of water layingaround everywhere in the house,
like sitting, you know what I mean?
Okay, so if we move over, let's go down tothe oven now and we're gonna get below the
oven, the stove, and we're gonna pull outthese cast iron skillets that you've got.
Oh yeah.
Or perhaps they're overthere in your camping gear.
I don't know, maybe you just usethat when you go camping, but.
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There are a variety of brands that andstyles of cast iron skillets, particularly
older ones that bring really high values.
One name that sort of leadsto pack is called Griswold.
If you think of the Gr Clark.
Yeah, the thew That's right.
The Christmas movie.
Griswold.
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They're usually very prominentlythe name is on the bottom of them,
but they have different models,different sizes, different num,
and usually numbers denote that.
They'll have a number like 10, wellthat's a 10 inch skillet or whatever good
condition ones or ones that have beenkept, they've taken very good care of.
Among other brands can sell for crazyamounts of money, and this is also
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something you can find at thrift stores.
They get donated along withany other kitchen thing.
The kitchen is an interesting placebecause if you go to a thrift store,
clothing is probably gonna be the numberone thing that you find, which would be
found in people's bedrooms or closets.
The second highest thing as far ascategory of things you're gonna find is
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stuff from people's kitchens, becausewhen people pull those out, they're used.
Most of the time people don't thinkthat they have enough value to sell, but
they're like, oh, somebody who doesn'twant to go, maybe can't afford to buy new
cookie pan, baking sheets or whatever.
This is still okay.
It's not rusted, and they'll donate it.
Cast iron skillets is one of those,and if you have one that you think
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it might be valuable, but it's ina little kind of rough condition.
There are YouTube tutorials andall kinds of stuff out there
for how to cure and or restore.
There are people who all they do is buy.
These old skillets in terriblecondition, all rusted out, and
then they completely, restore them.
And then they sell 'em for good money.
So people are buying them sometimesto collect, but also there is a
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little bit of this, these goodbrands made a quality product.
And so if I want, I want thebest possible item of this type.
The ones that they made back inthe day are the best of the best.
They've held up over time.
We'll move from that.
So very close to cast iron skilletsis other types of frying pans or
sauce pans or tea kettles or pots.
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So any type that you can find or havethat has a copper bottom, you may or
may not have seen these or used these.
Those tend to sell for the most because.
Coppers is about the best conductorof heat, that you can get.
That's why copper wiring is used inalmost all electronic wiring and things.
And so when you have these ones that havecopper bottoms provided that the seam
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between where the copper and the steelis not compromised and there's nothing
that would leak through those can be youcan sell those for good amount of money.
There's one brand, Ithink it's called Revere.
Revere, okay.
Oh ya.
Usually has a little, almost looks like a.
Like a colonial bust of afigure on the bottom of those.
Those have a pretty big following.
And col, they're pretty collectible.
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And I found those at thrift stores.
Three bucks come home, peopleare selling 'em for 75.
Perfect.
Yeah.
That is the perfect find, right?
It is.
Be those ones that are smalland my parents would probably
laugh about this 'cause I'm not,I don't really collect things.
I get in trouble every time there's aconversation about their things because
I, they know that I'm not going to, ifthey pass things down, there's very little
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that I'm actually going to keep because Idon't, I'd rather get the money and help
my kids so they don't have college debt.
Yeah.
In the future or whatever else.
Right.
But you know what I am and Iask for if my parents don't
want it, is my grandmother's.
Cast iron skillet and her pots andpans and things, because you know what?
She's been using the same ones for40 years and she takes such good care
of them and that stuff will, and if Itake care of 'em, they'll outlast me.
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Yeah.
I want that stock pot where she cookedthe greatest pinto beans that have
ever been created on the planet.
Me.
That's like a, if I go to prison,they're like mass glass meal.
Get my grandmother and makethese grandma's pinto beans.
Yeah.
Shout out to Dottie outthere in southwest Missouri.
Dottie's pinto beans,world famous pinto beans.
Listen, I don't want to cause stressfor her, for people, lining up in
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their cars to get her pinto beans.
She's lived a long, wonderful life andI don't think she wants to be working
all day anymore, that's the kind ofthing, because you were talking about
utility, like I can use that stuff.
And it's valuable to me becauseI can use it and it's valuable
to other people as well.
If you find something that's quality.
Usually with this stuff, people are usingthem and that's why they're buying 'em.
'cause they're either rare.
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They would rather use that.
I've got a buddy who buysCorning wear stuff all the time.
Mostly the clear stuff out at thriftstores just because, you know what?
They're not exactlyindestructible, but they're close.
They hold up to the dishwasher.
They can hold up to any heat orany cold that you can throw at it.
They're great.
And so it doesn't matterif it's 20 or 30 years old.
Yeah.
And it's like a brand newDutch oven or something.
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A Le Crueset, exactly.
That, was purchased 30 yearsago, it would've cost $400.
Then now they're, I'm glad youmentioned that brand as well.
That's a huge one actually for prices.
Le Crueset, it's like C-R-U-E-S-E-Tor something like that.
Yeah.
Okay.
So they're usually brightly colored in.
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Let me, hold on a second.
I'm gonna grab, yeah,I'm gonna grab a bowl.
Alright, sorry for that.
But I have a couple of bowlsand these are like yellow.
So this is a Lake Crue bowl.
It's kinda like brightly canaryyellow at the bottom, and it
comes up to more of a peach color.
But on the bottom of them theyhave the brand and they have a
little, almost looks like a targetsymbol and front of it, right?
And then it says Lake Cru a. Theselittle mixing bowls, any certain
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kinds specifically like the Dutch,the oven or the, those kinds
with the lid on the top of them.
The ceramic of the ceramic interior.
Hundreds of dollars oreven more than that.
So if you have some of those, shoot,if you don't care, to use a different
brand of the same thing, go outto the thrift store and find them
for three or $4 and then sell yourLake Ree for hundreds of dollars.
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That may be a start.
There you're naming all these brands.
The reason why they have set valueis like my wife cooks in cast iron
all the time because it just, yeah,it really transfers heat really well.
There's a reason why thesethings are so popular.
Lake Crusade, Dutch ovens are amazing.
Cooking devices.
When you use a, a, it's like a, forpeople that are into slow cooking
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we really love the slow cooker.
Mm-hmm.
You put a lake crusade pot on foreight hours and Dottie's Dottie didn't
make those pinto beans in 20 minutes.
Dottie no.
Put a, and the secret part of thatrecipe is Dottie puts in eight extra
dashes of love at the end of that recipe.
Oh.
She cooks them all day recipe.
They're cooked all day long.
She learned, she's been cooking them.
Three quarters of her life.
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And so she's perfected it.
She's perfected it.
Does she put in a little pork in there?
Is there a little.
Like a pork bone or something?
I don't know.
She doesn't do that, but, and I can tellyou, I, my mom has tried to replicate
it and she does a pretty good job,but it's just not, it's not quiet.
She learned it.
She got married, I think shewas 16 when she got married.
Okay.
Dottie, yeah, Dottie.
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And in less than a year, within thefirst year of being married, her, my
grandfather, her husband was in themiddle, he was in the Army and he was
sent to Germany during the Korean War,so in less, they had less than a year.
And then for the next two years,she lived with her mother-in-law and
father-in-law, and she learned how tocook from her mother-in-law at age 16
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to 18, and then for the rest of her lifewas cooking doggone fantastic meals.
Albeit Southern Fair.
We only have two colors representedmost of the time, but it, it's
the best that you can get.
I digress.
But those things, and here'sa, listen, everything I've just
said, that may be your buyer.
Maybe there's a strong affinity of someof these things because you have real
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world experiences with them that arefa you have fond, nostalgic memories
and you're like, you know what?
I.
One like this, and I wanna see if Ican cook these beans for my kids and
keep that going or whatever it may be.
Yeah.
So that's good.
Okay, so you mentionedmugs, which is awesome.
We'll turn our attention intothe cabinet has all of your
glasses and your glassware.
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There are various types ofglassware that can bring big values.
Maybe you have some champagne flutesor some wine glasses that you got.
You know your wedding, it was awedding gift 50 years ago, or maybe
you inherited it and you haven'tlooked, you, maybe you forgot.
Maybe those are Tiffany glasses.
Maybe these are some hybrid, maybethey're crystal, they're Swarovski
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crystal or something like that.
And you go look at the stemand you can find the marks.
Some of those can have pretty bigvalues, mugs of all kinds of things.
Popular ones like you collect dinermugs, so that's a specific type.
If you could find a rare one, like adiner mug from a casino that's no longer.
Around or a diner that'sno longer existing.
Exactly.
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Something like that.
Or maybe it's you, maybe back when youwere in the seventies, maybe you didn't
think about it in forever, but you'vegot the full set of the first Star Wars
glasses, from the first characters andthe first Star Wars movie up there.
Or maybe Batman, or Superman.
It could also have to do with charactersfrom popular movies or TV shows.
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In the eighties and nineties, or evenearlier than that Duke's a hazard.
We talked about that onthe previous episode.
If you have some of these things, bowlsor glasses that have collectability,
they were made specifically as acollector's item to begin with.
Yes, they have function, but you'rebuying that one just because you love
Garfield or you know you love Disney.
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So you got the, you have a reallyold set of glasses from, that
you got at Disneyland in 1956.
That's got some values.
All right.
Let me tell you people, if anybodyout there has a diner mug from the.
In Cloverdale, California from the 1970,early seventies, late sixties, reach out
to me at What's old podcast@gmail.com.
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I will pay top dollar forthat diner mug, Scandia.
Okay, so can you spell that?
Scania.
C-S-C-A-N-D-I-A.
Okay.
The Scandia was, my dad hada business or his, he was an
engineer, so he had an office andhe would, that was the big treat.
We'd go to the Scandiaand they'd give you those.
When you're a kid Idon't know what they are.
If I saw 'em as an adult, but whenI was a kid, we get the stack of
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pancakes and by the end I was sofull that I thought I might just die.
And it was like our month, monthly orbiweekly treat to go to this candy.
And they always had these dinermugs, that Scandia restaurant.
It no longer exists, thebuilding's even gone.
So I'm just saying if you have one, do youhappen to know what they would look like?
They looked like a dinermug, like a white diner mug.
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Okay.
And it just says Scandia Restaurant onit, it says Scandia Restaurant on it.
I think there might have been a, theremight have even been a a whatchamacallit,
a like a tree or something on there.
Okay.
Okay.
That might have been on it.
So anyway.
Alright.
Yes.
Scania mug, all Cloverdale, California.
Oh.
And I think it did say Cloverdale,California on the back.
Ah, okay.
I California.
Sure.
It's been a long time.
It's been a long time.
Somebody's hopping up anddown in their seat right now.
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'cause they're like, I think I have that.
If you do, please please email us.
Oh, please reach out.
We might even have you on talkabout where you got your Oh my God.
If you were like at the ScandiaOh, I would absolutely get,
I'm gonna bump mat for that.
I'm bump a mat to get you on if youhave a photograph of yourself holding a
Scandia mug in front of the restaurant.
From there, withholding anewspaper for with the date.
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Please send that our way.
19 March 1st, 1971.
That's right.
Yeah.
'cause proof of life.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
Alright, well listen Matt, we have run.
So long we, lately we'rejust, we're so loquacious.
I wanna make sure we get towhat sold, but we might have
to put that off till next week.
Let's put that off.
Yeah.
More whatever the cartoon like.
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Wait, what'd you sell this week?
I could I'll, let me throw, I'm gonnathrow one thing up just so that people can
be in furious, just a little bit angry.
This is an antique tintype of a man and a woman.
A woman standing.
The man is sitting down.
It's clearly in a studio.
And this is Victorian era.
Oh yeah.
This is probably 1870s to 1890s.
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But the unique thing aboutthis is that it's signed it's
actually in pencil at the bottom.
It's got a person's name,it says John Stanley.
And, oh, as I'm looking at it.
No.
Okay.
It's the YI was thinking for a second.
Maybe it had a date, whichwould've been really cool.
But it has the name andyou don't usually see that.
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What you might see is if it's in.
If it's like a degure type orsomething or and it has on the back
written, or sometimes it's in a photoalbum and they will have written
it on the matte portion over it.
But it's not usual to find people writingon the tin type itself and it's in pencil.
That's a cool piece.
This sold for $45 andI was happy with that.
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I think it sold for that much.
These are kind of 12, 15, $20depending on how unique it is.
But little DiGRA type ones that ha comeon the little book that open and close.
The average price for those is about40, $45, but that's usually when it's.
Another thing I sold here isthis little clutch type purse.
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It's black.
Oh yeah.
And it's got a little black handle.
It's older it's satin on the outside.
And then the where the kind of thehandle or the, shoulder, I guess it
would be in the crook of the elbowthere is where you would hold this.
But it has a very interestingdesign with Gemsto.
Rhinestones and stuff, whereyou would, and then you push in.
On the sides and it opens up itsays Made in France, but this is
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a sax, this was sold originallyat Saks Fifth Avenue in New York.
So this is a vintage, probably1950s, 1960s purse, something
Audrey Hepburn would carry.
Right.
And it sold for $40.
I would, it sat for a long time.
I thought it would sellfaster and for more money.
It just didn't, probably just becausethe style, it's not really in style.
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People aren't gonna use that much.
Mm-hmm.
And that was a consignmentpiece, so I didn't pay for it.
Pay five or six bucks for that ifI saw it at a thrift store to make.
Mm-hmm.
50 50 or 60 bucks.
Sure.
I wanna tell a quick story on ourway out, and this will be also a
teaser for next episode becauseI can go into more detail on it.
We love those cliffhangers.
Also, for those who are not aware orhave forgotten, we have a, I have a
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YouTube channel, rusty the Reseller,and this video is gonna come out
tonight, I think tonight or tomorrow.
If you're hearing this breakingnews, sorry, it was a week
ago that it came out right.
But but go find it.
It's it's gonna be over an hour long,but this week my family and I went down
to Swano near Warren Wilson College andwe walked, we did a nice little hike.
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It was beautiful thisweekend, Easter weekend.
And so we did a nice little walk.
You will not be surprisedto hear Brandon that.
All of the damage and debris and stuffthat was churned up from Hurricane
Helene, that area which is more ruralbecause it's away from the town.
That whole, there's not roads to thatlong section, so it's just like everything
(45:08):
that was washed there is still there andit's just, it's incredible the amount of
trash and debris and everything there.
But what I wanted to say is that aswe were there, and I'm walking with my
family, I come across an area that'svery loaded with broken glass and
pieces of plates and stuff like this.
All kinds of stuff.
And I even see some poking up likefull bottles and I'm like, interesting.
(45:30):
So I realized as I'm mayor, this isan old dump site that was at one time
buried and the hurricane came and washeda lot of the stuff off the top of it.
It also carved, the riverthere is now two to three times
wider than it was originally.
Yeah.
So what was a burn pile thatwas probably several feet away
from the river originally.
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The river is now carved allthe way up to that dump site.
So I start by looking, digging around.
I'm finding some cool pieces of glassand little things here and there.
I come down to the side of thebank and it's the coolest thing.
There are bottles, like old Coke bottlesand things just sticking out of, this
is, this bank is now where I'm standing.
It's probably eight to 10 feettall high from the riverbed.
(46:13):
The water was well above that at thetime, but I can just walk around and just
pluck out things outta the side here.
And this is people who lookreal bottles and stuff.
They usually dig large deeppits to take to the bottom.
The oldest stuff.
I don't necessarily even have to do that.
I may just have to scrape from the sigh.
All that to say I found a lotof really cool stuff that day.
I found a bunch of, Ifound some old marbles.
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I found an arrowhead.
I found some bottles and things.
Anyways, I record all of this.
It's in a thing, so we cantalk about that next time.
We can talk maybe about thevalue of things that I found.
Marbles, well, that'd fun.
Old bottles like soda bottlescrock jugs, stuff like that.
I'll also incorporate a littlebit of the video in the next show.
(46:55):
Great.
So if you're pieces, you don't havepieces, you definitely, the Rusty channel
is awesome and you should definitely watchthat 'cause it gets much more in depth.
Mm-hmm.
But at least we could showsome of the highlights of that.
Absolutely.
And I say that if you don't wanna goto it, it doesn't matter because we
can talk about it on here as well.
That way as everybody has an opportunityto hear and learn about that.
That was a fun thing this week.
I didn't intend.
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When I saw it, I was like,I want come out here.
So I went the next day and wasreally happy with what I found.
So nice.
And again, that's free.
Just takes your time.
Yeah, exactly.
And a lot of this stuffis just about time.
Have to think about like,all I have in it is time.
Time is money.
Yeah.
There's no question about it.
So you do have to be cautious andfrugal with your time, but sometimes do
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change your oil or have somebody change.
An hour of your time and it, youwould've paid $40 for an oil change.
Maybe you should just pay them to do it.
Exactly.
Because your time's worth more than that.
Anyway, listen, that is, I'm fascinated.
I don't know how we do this.
I have no I every week it's like, no way.
I can't believe we just went50 minutes, but that is all
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the time we have for this week.
We will be back with abrand new show next week.
Any last thoughts, Matt, beforewe head outta here about stuff
you find in your kitchen?
No, not necessarily.
I would.
I would say, conditions the,so if you find something, I
would clean it up if you can.
'cause you're gonna be, you'relikely to sell it for more than that.
But that's not the only room in the house.
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And so come back for future episodes'cause well, I'm sure we'll move
through to some other places thatyou might be able to find some stuff.
Don't be too afraid out there.
We're gonna survive whateverturbulence and things happening.
I believe you know, but if youneed to make a little bit of money.
You likely have some things,so maybe start there.
Good word.
Remember to follow, like, and subscribe.
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Taken in the mountain air and we areready to go to bring you guys some
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Matt?
Yeah, how are you?
I'm happy to be here.
I'm doing well.
How are you today?
I'm not sure.
I believe you.
I feel like you might have just saidthat and it's not actually true.
I feel like for those of you who dunno,Matt, he has a very interesting business.
He how.
You're like, was there more behindthat or is that just the way it is?
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So I like that you're describing mekind of like a sociopath who doesn't
really understand certain emotionsbecause they don't experience them.
Empathy.
Empathy.
Lacking empathy.
Yeah.
Well, hey, now that RFK is fixingautism, maybe we'll find out that's
what's been going on all these years.
Perhaps you've been a very highfunctioning autistic, although
I don't too much kindness in.
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Yeah.
Not to say that people with autismdon't have kindness and maybe they
just don't display it the same waythat, that we're accustomed to.
Exactly.
It's interesting, not that we're a showabout current events, but there was a
convers, RF K's been doing all this stuffand there is a a contestant on Survivor
who's the first autistic person onwho's on the spectrum and she's awesome.
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And we watch it as a family andshe's very up in arms because.
She's like saying, Heylook, I'm not a freak.
I'm just a person.
That brain works a little bit differently.
It's like somebody that has dyslexia andpeople think it's like, no, they're not.
They just, their brain works differently.
That's it.
It's not a big deal.
It does.
Yeah, and I'll confess, Ihaven't ever watched that show.
Maybe something in the very earlystages of that show, but I don't
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know, have there been very many.
I don't know, differenttypes of people represented.
Have there been many peoplewith disabilities or things
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Lots and lots of different.
They pride themselves on introducingdifferent types of characters.
Great.
They had one of the very first transcontestants and they've had just
every name, the type of person,and they've had it on the show.
Mm-hmm.
And it's one of our family favorites.
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Lots of people don'twatch it, but we love it.
It's very formulaic and we knowit's gonna happen, but it's
really fun with our daughter.
I wonder who's gonnaget voted off this week?
We don't watch any otherTV together as a family.
We don't actually watch that much tv,but that is our show and we love it.
You're gonna get a phone call from aconcerned parent and they'll say,
Hey your daughter got upset and told.
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My daughter that she's voting her out.
Can you explain what that means?
Off the island?
Off the island, she's voting her off.
Off the island.
You're outta here.
And I'll tell her very clearly.
Clearly your daughter has someproblems socially and can't get
along with her peers, right.
If she had behaved correctly, there'sno reason she would've voted her off.
Listen, I will tell that parent, yourdaughter better start searching for an
idol right now because her time is short.
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I'm just saying that'sprobably your time is short.
Alright.
Enough for this ridiculousness Matt.
Sure.
We are doing something alittle bit unique today.
Mm-hmm.
Unique in New York, Matt.
And I'd like to do our warmupsto Anchorman unique New York.
And we are going to be talking about,so Matt said on our I our episode.
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But I you were talking about peoplefinding stuff in tough times, so I
think it was our last episode andabout don't think you have to go
all over the world to find stuff.
Yeah.
A lot of it's to write in your own house.
Yeah.
So we're gonna start, do thislittle series of things that
people can look for in theirhouse, perhaps their in-laws house.
Yeah.
Their grand, people theyknow that have this stuff.
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People always have a junk drawer.
My wife calls it a utility drawer,but I, we, my daughter and I always
refer to it as the junk drawer.
It only has utility if you're actuallyusing things in there from time to time.
If it just, she often refers toit as the miscellaneous drawer
to throw this off the sink.
Exactly.
But we're like, it's the junk drawer.
But everybody has one of thosedrawers where you have all this stuff,
someday I might wanna use this x.
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And that before we get started,we're gonna talk about things
that are in the kitchen.
One can find that have value.
But before we get started, I wasperusing my newsfeed this morning
and I came across this article.
I actually sent it to Mattabout the value of old phones.
And we're not talking aboutlike phones from last year.
We're talking about phonesfrom like the eighties.
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So like the very first that biggiant phone that had the white
thing that looked like you wereon a, an astronaut somewhere.
Those are worth thousands of dollars nowthey're, they don't even have to work.
Mm-hmm.
But one of the things the articlesaid that I felt like, oh, that.
I always do this, and I think you alwaysdo this when you buy some piece of
electronic, they say that if it's in theoriginal box, it's way more valuable.
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I don't know why.
Mm-hmm.
But people love it in the original boxand I always save the original boxes.
So I was think to myself, oh my gosh,I think I have a bunch of old phones.
And it turns out, in fact, I do havesome old phones, so I'm gonna do a
little bit of deep diving and findout if there's any value to them.
Yeah.
Because I just kept them for, I dunno why.
I have them.
Right.
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Some things are just, it's, itjust feels strange to discard them.
Even if you don't think you're gonnause, if they're outdated, you're not
gonna, I've got countless examplesof cassette tapes and CDs and things
that people really haven't beenusing those mu, like listening to
music on those forms as much anymore.
Right.
But they just, they're like, ah,but you know, why throw it away?
You never know when, and I get, bythe way, kudos for finding evidence
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to support things that I've said.
You can continue doing that becausethat makes me sound like an expert.
Expert.
If other people agree you'rean expert though, then all of a
sudden I become like you want.
You want that soundbite from me?
Yeah, and I'll put that inthe show notes people, so you
can read the article as well.
'cause it was, you neverknow, you might in the drawer.
I have this little electronics drawerthat I keep and it's just I think for
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me, I'm always worried about maybea KGB spy coming across my phone
and taking all the contacts off,doing something scurrilous with it.
That's why I keep it, because I'ma classic, paranoid person, so I
don't want anybody to get my data.
You might have some of thisstuff laying around your house
that you don't even know.
And that's the, exactly the conversationwe're gonna have is what's in your
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kitchen that might have value that youdon't even know has value, and that
what can you sell on eBay with thatand, how much can we make from it?
So that's what we'regonna talk about today.
That's great.
Yeah.
Listener out there it'sexactly as Brandon said it.
The easiest way to start and the cheapestway to start is like you don't have
to walk beyond rooms in your housethat you're in every day of your life.
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You may be surprised at the value of somethings that you never would've thought
people would care about anymore, use much.
They're there.
And so we'll start with the kitchen today.
There this kind of a great,I'm just interject story here.
It seems like every week right now, I'mgetting more and more people contacting
me, asking if I'll sell things for them.
(07:25):
I feel like the last time wedid an episode, I had just
made a connection or two.
I probably made two or three more sincethe last time we recorded, and I'm almost
getting to the point where I need ano, Ineed to hire more people if I or I'm gonna
have to start saying, Hey, listen, I'mbooked until two, three weeks from now.
And honestly, if I'm booked outthat far, I really should get help.
So that may be something I do.
But I was in a person'shouse this morning.
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8:00 AM had a, this is one of thoseclassic situations where a parent
passed away, was in an assisted livingcommunity, but was living in a building
that's, it's not like a, there's several.
Small buildings, like maybe it's aduplex, but they live in one of them
and the daughter's in there right now.
She needs to get all this stuff outby the end of the month that's four
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or five days away wants to get thingsset up so that, and I don't know
if I don't think that they own it.
I think it goes back to the livingcenter so that they can clean it and then
offer it to someone else, but mm-hmm.
All that to say, she hadalready gone through and tagged
things that she wanted to keep.
And didn't know me, met me this morningand I kinda explained what I did.
She, wait, let me interrupt you.
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Sorry.
But I think this is for clarification.
So how did they find youfrom a mutual friend?
That I, I know, so the parent ofa friend of mine, you know, Rob.
So his mother, that guy?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Was above his mom.
He's not so much.
I know.
Yeah.
I could take or, leave him, frankly.
But she she knew what I did.
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And so this friend of herswas the one that passed away.
And so she, she wasn't real connected tothe daughter until now, but she wanted
to help, she was gonna help move stuff.
And then she said, oh, sherecognized the situation.
The lady was in, thoughtthat she could use my help.
And that was it.
So she just shared the information.
We set up a thing.
And so I go in today and very nice lady,and there's a lot of stuff in there that
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I'm likely going to gather for her in thenext couple of days and start selling.
Okay.
But I walk in the kitchen and I noticethat all along the top of the cabinets are
almost like little tchotchkes and things,but they're all kitchen related things.
So like little candy dishes or yeah,a cookie jar or things like that.
Oh, but they're older, right?
These are decades old.
And in really good condition.
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And so I was talking and she said, Hey,she pointed to a piece of Corning wear,
which is like a little casserole dish,a white with the blue flowery print,
the corn oh yeah, my mom had those.
Yeah, exactly.
That's a very common one.
Most people have probablyseen that or, and or used it.
And she's like, does this stuff, I hearthat some of this stuff can be valuable.
I'm like, yeah, it depends on thepattern, condition, all of that.
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But I was like, just as an example, andI reach up with my phone and I take a
photo of this candy dish with a lid.
I could tell by looking at it,it was a Fire King brand, which
we'll talk about in a moment.
I look it up and they're selling forbetween 150 and $200 and this thing
doesn't stand more than six inchestall, maybe four or five inches wide.
It's like a semi translucent,opaque, almost like milk glass,
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but not exactly milk glass.
Mm-hmm.
With a little color pattern on it,but it's like an exquisite condition.
Looks like it's never been used.
She was just shocked.
She was like, I wouldn't havethought, maybe 20 bucks, 30 bucks.
She was like, I mighthave even donated that.
Which is a, a very real relevant storyfrom today that is a part of this
conversation, which is you or someone youknow likely has things in the kitchen.
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So since I mentioned Fire King andCorningWare, let's just start there.
Brands such as Fire King, CorningWare,and Pyrex, those are probably
the three biggest ones that Isee regularly and are selling.
Certain patterns, meaning, the patternthat's on the outside of it, it's
usually floral in some way or something.
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It's colorful.
Or it may just be some sort ofuniform color or a geometric design
depending on the age condition.
So if it's scratched up it standsto reason it's probably not gonna be
selling for as much is one that's not.
But certain patterns were rarer becausethey were not produced as long, or
there weren't as many of them produced.
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And so if you happen to have one ofthese that's highly sought after, you
could make over a thousand dollarson a single bowl or a single dish.
And I'm not kidding you, there's a.
That.
And by the way, all of these madethings like bowls, candy dishes
casserole dishes of varying sizes,things that you would put in the oven
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or that you would put in the fridge.
There's a whole set of these that aresmall that uhhuh you would, put things in
the fridge and they were made of glass.
But the fire king has a particularproduct that is a sort of a mint green
color, and they call it jadeite becausejade jadeite is that green color.
Sure.
So they call it that.
But those tend to bring a premium as well.
People just like the color.
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Because they, they're just basedon a color, not on a pattern.
Even if they've been used and stuff,they still relatively look pretty well.
Whereas some of these casserole dishes, ifthey've been heavily used, you look down
on the bottom of it and you can see whereover time, spoons have scraped and now
it's got gray streaks and things in it.
But again, depending on thepattern, the age, even ones that are
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heavily used can be sought after.
So I think the best wayto start with that stuff.
The easiest.
And this, you can determinevalue in less than five minutes
on anything in your kitchen.
You just take out your phone, you takea photograph of it as clean and crisp
and of the main part of it as possible.
And then you go to your Google or Chromeapps, whatever, this is your search
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engine on your phone, and you click thelittle buy the search bar at the top.
You click the little iconthat looks like a camera.
And it's going to search the internet forimages that most closely match that photo.
It's essentially trying to gatherthe most similar item and it's gonna
show you pictures, and you're likelygonna find ones that are on places
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like eBay, Etsy, and other competitorssites, either in the US or worldwide.
Then you're also gonna see listingsthat have been on recent auction houses,
maybe online auctions or listings.
And a lot of those aren't gonnatell you the price because they
require a subscription to yourwebsite to give you the price.
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But if you go to eBay and some ofthose, you're gonna see what they are.
Now that you know what it's called, right?
I know that this is, up Pyrex, youknow this is the model number, or
this is the name of the pattern.
Then you can go to eBay andjust search that pattern.
Pyrex cornflower Blue.
CorningWare, corn, flourblue or whatever it is.
Spice of Life is one you've probably seen.
It's like cornucopia almostlooks like a Thanksgiving scene.
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You've probably seen those.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah.
Spice of Life, some ofthose can be valuable.
Others not as much.
But now you find it, you goto, you look up sold items.
On eBay, and then you look and see whathas sold over the last three months, and
that will give you an idea of the average.
But you can also click on one of those,and there's usually a button from
eBay that says, sell similar item.
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Perfect.
You just click that one button.
It creates the whole listing for you.
The only thing you have to do is addyour pictures, adjust the title if
you want, and then go in and adjustwhatever else you want to adjust, like
the price or how you want it shipped.
That kind of thing, but 90% ofthe work's already done for you.
You can research a thing, you knownothing about, identify it, search
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sold listings, work a copy off of asold listing and have something done.
Sometimes I buy stuff like this, guys,I'll go to a thrift store, I'll buy it.
I'll come out to the parking lot and inmy car I do this process and I will list
it and it's listed on my eBay site beforeI even drive out of the parking lot.
Oh, that's awesome.
You can do this in your kitchen.
Go find three or four things.
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Grab yourself a cup of coffee,go sit down in the corner, right?
And in 10 or 15 minutes youcould have listed four or five
potentially valuable things.
I went a little bit deeper there, butdifferent types of mixing bowls mugs,
like I said, casserole dishes, these typesof things by those main three brands.
And there are others, but those aretypically the most common ones I see.
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And I know that some ofthem are selling well.
Now, do you, before I move on, are,do you have any experience with
these things I'm talking about?
Have you seen these in either insomeone's kitchen, your parents' kitchen?
Oh yeah.
Uhhuh.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
My grandmother had, I remember at mygrandparents' house they, she had a,
like on shelves, she would have allthe mixing bowls and everything that
I, I'm exactly these, my mom had.
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Tyrex.
It's funny, my wife, her mother hadan entire set of, and I was just
thinking to myself, man, I wonderif what the value of that would be?
The original Tupperware in boxes of the.
Tupperware From a Tupperware party?
Yeah, from like the early seventiesthat had never been opened.
Yeah.
That's actually a great, I'mglad you mentioned that name.
I should have mentioned that too.
So as an adjacent brand that didn'treally create glass or hard products,
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but it was more plastic products.
Tupperware vintage Tupperware.
Again, certain colors wererarer to find that puke green
color or the mustard orange.
Oh yeah, we have one or, yeah, some ofthose and even ones that have, again, some
sort of a decoration around it as longas they're in good condition, sometimes
those things, depending on where they werestored, can be broken, brittle, crumbly.
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But others, I've seen othersthat are really good conditions.
In case in point, you can find stufflike that at thrift stores all day long.
You might find one, sometimesit's a heartbreaker, like
you'll find the Little bowl.
It should have come with alid, but the lids not there.
So you're like, okay, well you know it,it'll still sell, but not as much as it
would have if it was entirely complete.
Those things were prone to getlittle cracks or little things
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on around the edges of the lids.
As people would pry themup, they would crack.
If you find one that's undamaged, that'sgreat, but again, sometimes depending on.
The style and the age.
Even somes that are fairly damaged couldbe still sought after 'cause people
are trying to complete sets or they'retrying to get a various colors so that
it looks really colorful and cool vintageitems in their cupboard or whatever.
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So Tupperware's another one.
Okay, so if we move over from that,that cabinet that has the hard stuff.
Yeah.
And we went down to the drawerthat has the Tupperware.
Okay.
Now we're gonna move upto the silverware drawer.
And I say silverware, I really meanflatware, but a lot of people have,
either they know it or maybe they don't.
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Older or maybe even newer silverwarethat is made of sterling silver.
Or 800 silver or 900silver or nine 50 silver.
So 9 25 just means 925out of a thousand parts.
Pure silver nine 50 is 950out of a thousand parts.
That's why Sterlingsilver is marked 9 2 5.
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But silver is a traded precious metal.
It has a price that fluctuatesby the minute every day.
And so you can generally see thevalue of it based on the weight.
So if you have, a lot of people don'tnecessarily anymore use forks and
spoons and knives for their regularmeals that are made outta solid or
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sterling silver, but you might have,say, a carving knife or a sharpening
a sharpener for a carving knife.
You might have a large ladle or a spoonor a large fork and it's, it could be
either it's older, let's say you got itfrom a family member, you inherited it.
You just thought it looked cool.
It could be sterling silver,it could have a silver handle.
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Then the blade portion is maybe stainlesssteel, but it's usually marked that way.
Older ones, the majority of theolder pieces of silverware I find
that have silver handles, they,it's sometimes hard to find.
They're very tiny.
They usually say sterling, theword stir, like the full word.
Or they'll say stir, STER, period.
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For whatever reason on jewelry, a lot oftimes when they're newer, they're more
likely to say 9, 2 5, when they're older.
I'm talking the teens.
Ladder 18 hundreds and 18hundreds, it's gonna say Sterling.
Or if it's really old, itwon't even say an A thing.
It'll just have some essay stamps.
And if you see one thathas a an anchor on it.
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A cer, it's a, I don'twanna confuse people.
There is a particular anchor thatmeans that's a particular maker.
But usually if gold has a stampof an anchor, then that means that
it was, it is sterling silver.
Okay?
And it was likely made in Europe,probably England someplace.
Again, more of a deep dive.
But take a look at your flatware.
You might have some, and certainpatterns, like if the handle of those
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older ones seem to be way more ornate.
The handles, were veryfloral, they were etched.
They had a really cool design.
People collect certain sets by certainmakers and maybe they, they want to
have, they have a place setting foreight, but they've only got seven forks.
They're looking for that eight fork.
Mm-hmm.
Or maybe they have the whole setupsthat they don't have the big pieces
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like the ladle or the serving spoon.
So those can definitely be worth somethingand that's an easy place to look.
Also in that drawer you may have knives.
So we talked about silver as areason why something can be valuable.
There are certain types of knivesthat are higher end knives.
Maybe you bought it, knew what itwas, or maybe you inherited it.
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Maybe you just, you're the kind of personthat likes to be a frugal, and so you
get things like that from thrift stores.
When you see something thatlooks quality, you get it.
There's a certain brand, thereare certain brands of knives
that can bring high values.
I tend to find.
In with other knivesand it's just a dollar.
Doesn't matter what itis, knives are a dollar.
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I pull that out and that's like a 50or $60 knife, maybe more than that
if it's in really good condition.
And Cutco knives.
Yeah.
Cutco has a weird reputation becausethe way they sell the knives, right?
They basically hire peopleto go around, but ultimately.
They're really good knives.
They're, the Cutco knivesthat we have are amazing.
I'm always like, wow, thisis a really good knife.
And I think that they have a lifetime.
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I think you can send them in and they willsharpen them for you and send them back.
Mm-hmm.
But the way you know, Cutco knives,aside from looking closely and
seeing that it says Cutco, isthat the handles are very unique.
They're, if you think of like an hourglasspattern, if you were to look at it
from the side, that's what it's like.
So it's more rounded in the centerand towards the, and the bottom.
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It's narrow in betweenthere and it gets wide.
Again.
I wish I had one with, I have oneshere, but I to show us a visual aid.
But those can be valuable.
And then others that are brands that catermore to more professional, like chefs
and people in the food industry, thosethings will find their ways sometimes into
thrift stores and places, or a yard sale.
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There's a box of stuff and there wasa few things in there you wanted.
So you bought the whole box.
There's like everything for 20 bucksand you ended up with a couple knives
and you're like, oh, I might use them.
You throw 'em in, but you may notrealize that they have more value
than just cutting your limes orwhatever you're gonna use it for.
My father-in-law worked wasan engineer for the Oneida.
(22:04):
Silver corporation and basicallyOneida, there's a whole story behind it.
It's a crazy story.
Super weird backstory.
Super weird backstory.
But they made fine silverware.
Flatware.
They, it was, they were known fortheir, and what happened is back in
the nineties, as lots of companieswere doing, they started shipping the
manufacturing of the actual flatwareChina or wherever, demarcation.
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My mother-in-law had an entireset of Oneida silverware.
Wow.
That my wife's brother is like,Hey, do you guys want this stuff?
And so we ended up withall this Oneida silver.
Nice.
And, which I'm sure if we went and it's acomplete set, everything, the ladle, all
that stuff, I'm sure if we put that alltogether, it would have some real value.
The only reason I bring that up isthat you don't know if your neighbor
(22:51):
down the street has the stuff.
They're like, ah, I don't reallylike the style or whatever.
Right.
But it might have some real valueif like it's Oneida flatware.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And as you mentioned, and that may belike a double whammy, it might be made
of silver, and it's also a full set.
That's great.
A lot of that older stuff,especially when there's a, an
intriguing history behind it.
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Collectors are gonna wantthat stuff, so that's good.
So if we go back up to the cabinetarea again, we're gonna go towards
the top and towards the back whereyou have the old teacups and saucers
that you got from your grandmotheror whoever it was that you never use.
I know everyone has listen, I'vebeen to enough people's house.
My favorite thing to do whenI go in people's kitchens.
(23:32):
To is to a guess where the trashcan is if it's not obvious,
and B, where is the silverware?
Because a lot of timesthere's drawers, right?
And so I have to be, it's like, okay, isthis, it's like an intuitive thing, is it?
So are they the kind of people thathave the trash can and a pullout thing?
Is it, are they under the sink peopleor are they in the side covered people.
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In a, oh, and then with the silverware,man, it's a, it's anybody's guess
'cause sometimes, and it's in theleast intuitive spot you would
think, and you're just like.
But anyways, so No, I agree.
And or you can be married tosomebody like I am who constantly
moves things around on you.
Ah, just to keep you on your toes.
I'm like, wait, what happened tothe, yeah, that happens pretty
much monthly in our house.
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Things get, it's the kind of guy whojust pulls the rug out from underneath
of you when you, as soon as you walk in.
Totally.
So if we go, if we pull out you're gonnafind things like teacups and saucers.
You're gonna find these little sets oftea sets that like little kids can use.
Maybe you have one that's two, 150years old and this was for kids
back in civil War era, or whatever.
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That stuff can have value,especially its full sets.
But turning our attention to saucersand teacups, there are some brands,
some older ones, typically European.
England or German thingssometimes Russian.
Royal Prussia is a brand I found forthose who didn't hear the episode,
where I spoke about this before.
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The short story is I boughta large lot of things.
It took me months to get through all theboxes to open them and actually list them.
I was gathering things.
'cause every time you buy a largelot, there's always a percentage
that needs to be trashed.
There's a percentage that needs tobe donated 'cause it's not really
worth your time because there'snot really enough value there.
I found this like really ugly to me.
Ugly looking saucer and teacup butterfliesand pinks and swirls and things.
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And I think, sure, that's not me.
So that's gonna, that's gonnago in the giveaway that's gonna
go to the a local thrift store.
But being a learning from previousresearch and mistakes, I'm like, I'm
gonna research it just to make sure.
The final conclusion to that storyis that two weeks later, I sold
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that saucer and tea cup, which it'sjust a saucer, like a small little
saucer, a small little teacup, $1,400.
Oh my, I remember that story.
It's amazing.
Yes.
It was by a brand called Ainsley.
And not everything byAinsley is that valuable.
However, a lot of things are, so theones I find to be selling for the most,
aside from certain brands, which youcan do that research on eBay, it's
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pretty easily just look up saucer,like vintage or antique saucer, teacup.
And then just look at sold items.
Look at the highest ones.
Mm-hmm.
You'll see patterns, but ones that arereally brightly colored in full color.
Let's say it's an, it's a really brightcobalt blue color with some other
colors, but it's very full of color.
It's not primarily white.
It's actually primarily a color withwhite things as accents or ones that
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have a lot of guilt and or gold.
Painted brush work on us.
So a lot of times some brands wouldcreate a thing and then someone would
come in after the fact, after it wascreated and hand paint stuff on there,
and some that have a lot of gold.
I don't know if people are buyingit to actually remove the gold or
if they just like the look of it.
Those tend to sell pretty well.
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Also, you can go to thrift stores and youcan find these, 'cause thrift stores don't
look up to see like, oh, it's an Ainsley.
Maybe that's, no.
It's like, mm-hmm.
Sausage and teacups are 50cents, or they're a dollar.
Just because they're asaucer and a tea cup.
And if you happen to come in on aday when something really valuable
was put out, you could score big.
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That kind of thing can happen.
So before you go out there though,go and you'll feel good anyways just
to pull that junk out right out ofthere that you've never look at in
the dark recesses of the kitchen.
Pull that stuff out and if youfind something of value, great.
If you see something, you'relike, I really should use this.
This ain't going back.
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Like I, I need to use that space.
Right.
I'm gonna donate that to a local charity.
Great win for you.
You freed up space win for them.
They got something that they can selland make money to support their cause.
So that's another.
A really good place to look now, areyou, after this, are you gonna go pull
on your old teacup collection, Brandon?
Oh, yeah.
It's funny, we have a cup collection.
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We collect diner mugs.
Mugs.
And I love them.
But we have I've often thought of atsome point when I'm long gone, is Maple
gonna come through, my daughter, andlook at all these mugs from different
coffee shops around the country.
It's quite impressive, Matt.
But we do have, we.
As in any family, everybody has theirneeds or their wants or their, like, we
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have collected more water bottles thanany family on the planet, and it's because
every time a child takes a water bottlesomeplace, they never, it's almost like
they're like, I can't come home with this.
It gets left somewhere, youhave to have more than one.
It's true.
If a water bottle gets leftat a friend's house, do you,
and no one's there to hear it.
Does it make a sound type thing?
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Yeah.
It's pretty crazy how much stuff youcan collect, but you're like, oh,
I need to give this back, or, oh,this'll come in handy at some point.
But you're right, thatcatharsis of removing stuff.
Now I do have a family memberwho will remain nameless, Sue.
They are queen.
They don't keep anything ever ifyou know that if you give it to
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'em, it will be gone in like a week.
Yeah.
They just don't want anythingin their house they're not using
right then and there, which Ifind a little bit over the line.
There are some things that areworth hanging onto, but interesting
factoid for trivia, there are more.
Children's water bottlesfloating out in the ocean.
Then there are straws.
I mean that it could, because every timethey go out I'm telling you, if I went
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10 places in a day and I gave my childa water bottle every time we went, guess
how many water bottles would be home?
Zero.
At the end of the day.
Zero.
And and that's the kind of mathproblems I present to my kids as well.
I need them to understand thisis a learning opportunity.
I do wonder about the, what age it is.
This is completely nothing to do with whatwe're talking about, but I look at kids
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sometimes and I'm like, what age do youstart being more self-aware that now I
need to pick my coat up and bring it home.
All right, that's my water bottle.
I'm going to pack it away.
At some point we figure it out, right?
Or maybe some people don't.
I don't know.
I'm in my forties.
It for me, it hasn't happened yet.
I'm still waiting for the.
But we'll get, you're stillleaving water bottles everywhere.
That's right.
Alright.
What else do we have in thekitchen that we wanna sell?
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It's like signs around here.
There are bottle of water layingaround everywhere in the house,
like sitting, you know what I mean?
Okay, so if we move over, let's go down tothe oven now and we're gonna get below the
oven, the stove, and we're gonna pull outthese cast iron skillets that you've got.
Oh yeah.
Or perhaps they're overthere in your camping gear.
I don't know, maybe you just usethat when you go camping, but.
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There are a variety of brands that andstyles of cast iron skillets, particularly
older ones that bring really high values.
One name that sort of leadsto pack is called Griswold.
If you think of the Gr Clark.
Yeah, the thew That's right.
The Christmas movie.
Griswold.
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They're usually very prominentlythe name is on the bottom of them,
but they have different models,different sizes, different num,
and usually numbers denote that.
They'll have a number like 10, wellthat's a 10 inch skillet or whatever good
condition ones or ones that have beenkept, they've taken very good care of.
Among other brands can sell for crazyamounts of money, and this is also
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something you can find at thrift stores.
They get donated along withany other kitchen thing.
The kitchen is an interesting placebecause if you go to a thrift store,
clothing is probably gonna be the numberone thing that you find, which would be
found in people's bedrooms or closets.
The second highest thing as far ascategory of things you're gonna find is
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stuff from people's kitchens, becausewhen people pull those out, they're used.
Most of the time people don't thinkthat they have enough value to sell, but
they're like, oh, somebody who doesn'twant to go, maybe can't afford to buy new
cookie pan, baking sheets or whatever.
This is still okay.
It's not rusted, and they'll donate it.
Cast iron skillets is one of those,and if you have one that you think
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it might be valuable, but it's ina little kind of rough condition.
There are YouTube tutorials andall kinds of stuff out there
for how to cure and or restore.
There are people who all they do is buy.
These old skillets in terriblecondition, all rusted out, and
then they completely, restore them.
And then they sell 'em for good money.
So people are buying them sometimesto collect, but also there is a
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little bit of this, these goodbrands made a quality product.
And so if I want, I want thebest possible item of this type.
The ones that they made back inthe day are the best of the best.
They've held up over time.
We'll move from that.
So very close to cast iron skilletsis other types of frying pans or
sauce pans or tea kettles or pots.
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So any type that you can find or havethat has a copper bottom, you may or
may not have seen these or used these.
Those tend to sell for the most because.
Coppers is about the best conductorof heat, that you can get.
That's why copper wiring is used inalmost all electronic wiring and things.
And so when you have these ones that havecopper bottoms provided that the seam
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between where the copper and the steelis not compromised and there's nothing
that would leak through those can be youcan sell those for good amount of money.
There's one brand, Ithink it's called Revere.
Revere, okay.
Oh ya.
Usually has a little, almost looks like a.
Like a colonial bust of afigure on the bottom of those.
Those have a pretty big following.
And col, they're pretty collectible.
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And I found those at thrift stores.
Three bucks come home, peopleare selling 'em for 75.
Perfect.
Yeah.
That is the perfect find, right?
It is.
Be those ones that are smalland my parents would probably
laugh about this 'cause I'm not,I don't really collect things.
I get in trouble every time there's aconversation about their things because
I, they know that I'm not going to, ifthey pass things down, there's very little
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that I'm actually going to keep because Idon't, I'd rather get the money and help
my kids so they don't have college debt.
Yeah.
In the future or whatever else.
Right.
But you know what I am and Iask for if my parents don't
want it, is my grandmother's.
Cast iron skillet and her pots andpans and things, because you know what?
She's been using the same ones for40 years and she takes such good care
of them and that stuff will, and if Itake care of 'em, they'll outlast me.
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Yeah.
I want that stock pot where she cookedthe greatest pinto beans that have
ever been created on the planet.
Me.
That's like a, if I go to prison,they're like mass glass meal.
Get my grandmother and makethese grandma's pinto beans.
Yeah.
Shout out to Dottie outthere in southwest Missouri.
Dottie's pinto beans,world famous pinto beans.
Listen, I don't want to cause stressfor her, for people, lining up in
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their cars to get her pinto beans.
She's lived a long, wonderful life andI don't think she wants to be working
all day anymore, that's the kind ofthing, because you were talking about
utility, like I can use that stuff.
And it's valuable to me becauseI can use it and it's valuable
to other people as well.
If you find something that's quality.
Usually with this stuff, people are usingthem and that's why they're buying 'em.
'cause they're either rare.
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They would rather use that.
I've got a buddy who buysCorning wear stuff all the time.
Mostly the clear stuff out at thriftstores just because, you know what?
They're not exactlyindestructible, but they're close.
They hold up to the dishwasher.
They can hold up to any heat orany cold that you can throw at it.
They're great.
And so it doesn't matterif it's 20 or 30 years old.
Yeah.
And it's like a brand newDutch oven or something.
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A Le Crueset, exactly.
That, was purchased 30 yearsago, it would've cost $400.
Then now they're, I'm glad youmentioned that brand as well.
That's a huge one actually for prices.
Le Crueset, it's like C-R-U-E-S-E-Tor something like that.
Yeah.
Okay.
So they're usually brightly colored in.
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Let me, hold on a second.
I'm gonna grab, yeah,I'm gonna grab a bowl.
Alright, sorry for that.
But I have a couple of bowlsand these are like yellow.
So this is a Lake Crue bowl.
It's kinda like brightly canaryyellow at the bottom, and it
comes up to more of a peach color.
But on the bottom of them theyhave the brand and they have a
little, almost looks like a targetsymbol and front of it, right?
And then it says Lake Cru a. Theselittle mixing bowls, any certain
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kinds specifically like the Dutch,the oven or the, those kinds
with the lid on the top of them.
The ceramic of the ceramic interior.
Hundreds of dollars oreven more than that.
So if you have some of those, shoot,if you don't care, to use a different
brand of the same thing, go outto the thrift store and find them
for three or $4 and then sell yourLake Ree for hundreds of dollars.
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That may be a start.
There you're naming all these brands.
The reason why they have set valueis like my wife cooks in cast iron
all the time because it just, yeah,it really transfers heat really well.
There's a reason why thesethings are so popular.
Lake Crusade, Dutch ovens are amazing.
Cooking devices.
When you use a, a, it's like a, forpeople that are into slow cooking
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we really love the slow cooker.
Mm-hmm.
You put a lake crusade pot on foreight hours and Dottie's Dottie didn't
make those pinto beans in 20 minutes.
Dottie no.
Put a, and the secret part of thatrecipe is Dottie puts in eight extra
dashes of love at the end of that recipe.
Oh.
She cooks them all day recipe.
They're cooked all day long.
She learned, she's been cooking them.
Three quarters of her life.
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And so she's perfected it.
She's perfected it.
Does she put in a little pork in there?
Is there a little.
Like a pork bone or something?
I don't know.
She doesn't do that, but, and I can tellyou, I, my mom has tried to replicate
it and she does a pretty good job,but it's just not, it's not quiet.
She learned it.
She got married, I think shewas 16 when she got married.
Okay.
Dottie, yeah, Dottie.
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And in less than a year, within thefirst year of being married, her, my
grandfather, her husband was in themiddle, he was in the Army and he was
sent to Germany during the Korean War,so in less, they had less than a year.
And then for the next two years,she lived with her mother-in-law and
father-in-law, and she learned how tocook from her mother-in-law at age 16
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to 18, and then for the rest of her lifewas cooking doggone fantastic meals.
Albeit Southern Fair.
We only have two colors representedmost of the time, but it, it's
the best that you can get.
I digress.
But those things, and here'sa, listen, everything I've just
said, that may be your buyer.
Maybe there's a strong affinity of someof these things because you have real
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world experiences with them that arefa you have fond, nostalgic memories
and you're like, you know what?
I.
One like this, and I wanna see if Ican cook these beans for my kids and
keep that going or whatever it may be.
Yeah.
So that's good.
Okay, so you mentionedmugs, which is awesome.
We'll turn our attention intothe cabinet has all of your
glasses and your glassware.
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There are various types ofglassware that can bring big values.
Maybe you have some champagne flutesor some wine glasses that you got.
You know your wedding, it was awedding gift 50 years ago, or maybe
you inherited it and you haven'tlooked, you, maybe you forgot.
Maybe those are Tiffany glasses.
Maybe these are some hybrid, maybethey're crystal, they're Swarovski
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crystal or something like that.
And you go look at the stemand you can find the marks.
Some of those can have pretty bigvalues, mugs of all kinds of things.
Popular ones like you collect dinermugs, so that's a specific type.
If you could find a rare one, like adiner mug from a casino that's no longer.
Around or a diner that'sno longer existing.
Exactly.
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Something like that.
Or maybe it's you, maybe back when youwere in the seventies, maybe you didn't
think about it in forever, but you'vegot the full set of the first Star Wars
glasses, from the first characters andthe first Star Wars movie up there.
Or maybe Batman, or Superman.
It could also have to do with charactersfrom popular movies or TV shows.
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In the eighties and nineties, or evenearlier than that Duke's a hazard.
We talked about that onthe previous episode.
If you have some of these things, bowlsor glasses that have collectability,
they were made specifically as acollector's item to begin with.
Yes, they have function, but you'rebuying that one just because you love
Garfield or you know you love Disney.
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So you got the, you have a reallyold set of glasses from, that
you got at Disneyland in 1956.
That's got some values.
All right.
Let me tell you people, if anybodyout there has a diner mug from the.
In Cloverdale, California from the 1970,early seventies, late sixties, reach out
to me at What's old podcast@gmail.com.
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I will pay top dollar forthat diner mug, Scandia.
Okay, so can you spell that?
Scania.
C-S-C-A-N-D-I-A.
Okay.
The Scandia was, my dad hada business or his, he was an
engineer, so he had an office andhe would, that was the big treat.
We'd go to the Scandiaand they'd give you those.
When you're a kid Idon't know what they are.
If I saw 'em as an adult, but whenI was a kid, we get the stack of
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pancakes and by the end I was sofull that I thought I might just die.
And it was like our month, monthly orbiweekly treat to go to this candy.
And they always had these dinermugs, that Scandia restaurant.
It no longer exists, thebuilding's even gone.
So I'm just saying if you have one, do youhappen to know what they would look like?
They looked like a dinermug, like a white diner mug.
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Okay.
And it just says Scandia Restaurant onit, it says Scandia Restaurant on it.
I think there might have been a, theremight have even been a a whatchamacallit,
a like a tree or something on there.
Okay.
Okay.
That might have been on it.
So anyway.
Alright.
Yes.
Scania mug, all Cloverdale, California.
Oh.
And I think it did say Cloverdale,California on the back.
Ah, okay.
I California.
Sure.
It's been a long time.
It's been a long time.
Somebody's hopping up anddown in their seat right now.
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'cause they're like, I think I have that.
If you do, please please email us.
Oh, please reach out.
We might even have you on talkabout where you got your Oh my God.
If you were like at the ScandiaOh, I would absolutely get,
I'm gonna bump mat for that.
I'm bump a mat to get you on if youhave a photograph of yourself holding a
Scandia mug in front of the restaurant.
From there, withholding anewspaper for with the date.
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Please send that our way.
19 March 1st, 1971.
That's right.
Yeah.
'cause proof of life.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
Alright, well listen Matt, we have run.
So long we, lately we'rejust, we're so loquacious.
I wanna make sure we get towhat sold, but we might have
to put that off till next week.
Let's put that off.
Yeah.
More whatever the cartoon like.
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Wait, what'd you sell this week?
I could I'll, let me throw, I'm gonnathrow one thing up just so that people can
be in furious, just a little bit angry.
This is an antique tintype of a man and a woman.
A woman standing.
The man is sitting down.
It's clearly in a studio.
And this is Victorian era.
Oh yeah.
This is probably 1870s to 1890s.
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But the unique thing aboutthis is that it's signed it's
actually in pencil at the bottom.
It's got a person's name,it says John Stanley.
And, oh, as I'm looking at it.
No.
Okay.
It's the YI was thinking for a second.
Maybe it had a date, whichwould've been really cool.
But it has the name andyou don't usually see that.
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What you might see is if it's in.
If it's like a degure type orsomething or and it has on the back
written, or sometimes it's in a photoalbum and they will have written
it on the matte portion over it.
But it's not usual to find people writingon the tin type itself and it's in pencil.
That's a cool piece.
This sold for $45 andI was happy with that.
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I think it sold for that much.
These are kind of 12, 15, $20depending on how unique it is.
But little DiGRA type ones that ha comeon the little book that open and close.
The average price for those is about40, $45, but that's usually when it's.
Another thing I sold here isthis little clutch type purse.
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It's black.
Oh yeah.
And it's got a little black handle.
It's older it's satin on the outside.
And then the where the kind of thehandle or the, shoulder, I guess it
would be in the crook of the elbowthere is where you would hold this.
But it has a very interestingdesign with Gemsto.
Rhinestones and stuff, whereyou would, and then you push in.
On the sides and it opens up itsays Made in France, but this is
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a sax, this was sold originallyat Saks Fifth Avenue in New York.
So this is a vintage, probably1950s, 1960s purse, something
Audrey Hepburn would carry.
Right.
And it sold for $40.
I would, it sat for a long time.
I thought it would sellfaster and for more money.
It just didn't, probably just becausethe style, it's not really in style.
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People aren't gonna use that much.
Mm-hmm.
And that was a consignmentpiece, so I didn't pay for it.
Pay five or six bucks for that ifI saw it at a thrift store to make.
Mm-hmm.
50 50 or 60 bucks.
Sure.
I wanna tell a quick story on ourway out, and this will be also a
teaser for next episode becauseI can go into more detail on it.
We love those cliffhangers.
Also, for those who are not aware orhave forgotten, we have a, I have a
(44:24):
YouTube channel, rusty the Reseller,and this video is gonna come out
tonight, I think tonight or tomorrow.
If you're hearing this breakingnews, sorry, it was a week
ago that it came out right.
But but go find it.
It's it's gonna be over an hour long,but this week my family and I went down
to Swano near Warren Wilson College andwe walked, we did a nice little hike.
(44:48):
It was beautiful thisweekend, Easter weekend.
And so we did a nice little walk.
You will not be surprisedto hear Brandon that.
All of the damage and debris and stuffthat was churned up from Hurricane
Helene, that area which is more ruralbecause it's away from the town.
That whole, there's not roads to thatlong section, so it's just like everything
(45:08):
that was washed there is still there andit's just, it's incredible the amount of
trash and debris and everything there.
But what I wanted to say is that aswe were there, and I'm walking with my
family, I come across an area that'svery loaded with broken glass and
pieces of plates and stuff like this.
All kinds of stuff.
And I even see some poking up likefull bottles and I'm like, interesting.
(45:30):
So I realized as I'm mayor, this isan old dump site that was at one time
buried and the hurricane came and washeda lot of the stuff off the top of it.
It also carved, the riverthere is now two to three times
wider than it was originally.
Yeah.
So what was a burn pile thatwas probably several feet away
from the river originally.
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The river is now carved allthe way up to that dump site.
So I start by looking, digging around.
I'm finding some cool pieces of glassand little things here and there.
I come down to the side of thebank and it's the coolest thing.
There are bottles, like old Coke bottlesand things just sticking out of, this
is, this bank is now where I'm standing.
It's probably eight to 10 feettall high from the riverbed.
(46:13):
The water was well above that at thetime, but I can just walk around and just
pluck out things outta the side here.
And this is people who lookreal bottles and stuff.
They usually dig large deeppits to take to the bottom.
The oldest stuff.
I don't necessarily even have to do that.
I may just have to scrape from the sigh.
All that to say I found a lotof really cool stuff that day.
I found a bunch of, Ifound some old marbles.
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I found an arrowhead.
I found some bottles and things.
Anyways, I record all of this.
It's in a thing, so we cantalk about that next time.
We can talk maybe about thevalue of things that I found.
Marbles, well, that'd fun.
Old bottles like soda bottlescrock jugs, stuff like that.
I'll also incorporate a littlebit of the video in the next show.
(46:55):
Great.
So if you're pieces, you don't havepieces, you definitely, the Rusty channel
is awesome and you should definitely watchthat 'cause it gets much more in depth.
Mm-hmm.
But at least we could showsome of the highlights of that.
Absolutely.
And I say that if you don't wanna goto it, it doesn't matter because we
can talk about it on here as well.
That way as everybody has an opportunityto hear and learn about that.
That was a fun thing this week.
I didn't intend.
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When I saw it, I was like,I want come out here.
So I went the next day and wasreally happy with what I found.
So nice.
And again, that's free.
Just takes your time.
Yeah, exactly.
And a lot of this stuffis just about time.
Have to think about like,all I have in it is time.
Time is money.
Yeah.
There's no question about it.
So you do have to be cautious andfrugal with your time, but sometimes do
(47:40):
change your oil or have somebody change.
An hour of your time and it, youwould've paid $40 for an oil change.
Maybe you should just pay them to do it.
Exactly.
Because your time's worth more than that.
Anyway, listen, that is, I'm fascinated.
I don't know how we do this.
I have no I every week it's like, no way.
I can't believe we just went50 minutes, but that is all
(48:02):
the time we have for this week.
We will be back with abrand new show next week.
Any last thoughts, Matt, beforewe head outta here about stuff
you find in your kitchen?
No, not necessarily.
I would.
I would say, conditions the,so if you find something, I
would clean it up if you can.
'cause you're gonna be, you'relikely to sell it for more than that.
But that's not the only room in the house.
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And so come back for future episodes'cause well, I'm sure we'll move
through to some other places thatyou might be able to find some stuff.
Don't be too afraid out there.
We're gonna survive whateverturbulence and things happening.
I believe you know, but if youneed to make a little bit of money.
You likely have some things,so maybe start there.
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